Ralph Weber learned computer technology on his mother's knee, literally, spending many a teenager's Saturday mousing around the behemoths while she debugged Fortran programs. His first significant program drove a Cal*Comp plotter to draw script-style lettering and was completed before high-school graduation in 1969. This was followed by a bachelors degree from Texas A&M and seven additional years writing Fortran for TAMU physicists at the Cyclotron Institute.
Between 1981 and 1997, he developed peripheral interface protocol standards. He first discovered this calling as the storage standards rep for VAXclusters in Digital’s VMS operating system development group. When not haggling over standardeze, he wrote device drivers for VMS, including the first SCSI Port Driver not coded in assembly language.
He was a consultant between 1997 and 2014, and a Technologist thereafter, specializing is standards development, mostly for Western Digital Corp.